water vapour
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Hydrogen has often been touted as an environmentally-friendly future fuel because when burned the only by-product is water vapour.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
The fewer trees there are, the less water vapour is emitted to create rain for their crops - which some farmers burn their land to make room for.
From BBC • Oct. 3, 2024
Conspiracy theorists point to white plumes of water vapour trailing behind passenger airplanes, commonly called contrails, as proof of sinister and secret plots, but lack evidence for their claims.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2024
The process is similar to frost on Earth, where water vapour forms ice crystals and blankets the landscape in a white film.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2024
Some of the earlier observers thought that they could distinctly make out some such lines due, as was supposed, to water vapour.
From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
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